Browned Butter Broccoli with Mizithra Cheese Recipe (2024)

Our Browned Butter Broccoli and Mizithra Cheese Recipe is one of our families long-time favorite recipes! It’s SO good. If you’ve eaten the Spaghetti Factory Broccoli Recipe and loved like we did, then you won’t be surprised at all to hear that I had to run right home and figure out how to make it myself! Butter broccoli is good and it’s about a million times better when it’s browned! But, what’s the secret? It’s got to be the Mizithra Cheese recipe for sure! Oh my. I adore it.

Why we love Browned Butter Broccoli with Mizithra Cheese Recipe

The first time Browned Butter Broccoli and Mizithra Cheese deliciously passed my lips was at the Spaghetti Factory about 10 years ago now… Oh, I was totally hooked with the first bite!

I instantly knew that I’d be duplicating it at home. Mmmmm hmm.

What is Mizithra Cheese?

• Mizithra Cheese is a Greek cheese made from sheep or goats milk. It is primarily produced on the island of Crete, but it is widespread throughout Greece.Mizithra can be salt dried to produce a mature salty cheese.

• Mizithra is a pasteurized sheep’s milk cheese made all over Greece. In the past, balls of Mizithra were hung outside wrapped in sheets to drain as part of their preparation. Today, cheese makers try to stay true to the rustic roots of hanging, depending on the time of year the milk was harvested.

• When cooking with Mizithra, or any ethnic ingredient, it helps to look at how the people who created it use it.

• The Greeks enjoy Mizithra at all times of the day.

• For breakfast serve slices with thyme honey and fresh fruit. Serve it as an appetizer with olives, tomatoes, basil and bread, like you would Mozzarella. As this cheese ages, it evolves and goes even better with traditional Greek flavors. Crumble or grate it over Mediterranean inspired salads and pastas. For a wine pairing, try serving it with Prosecco.

Tips for making Browned Butter Broccoli with Mizithra Cheese Recipe

• Make sure your fry pan is good and hot when adding the butter to brown that way it will easily brown and caramelize.

• Continually stir butter for 1-2 minutes until you see the brown color deepen and the caramelized fragrance.

• Add broccoli, continue stirring while cooking 2 minutes, cover with lid and cook 2 minutes or until reaches desired tenderness.

• We prefer broccoli tender-firm so we usually don’t put a lid on it and enjoy it crunchier.

• Then the magic sprinkling of Mizithra Cheese! I am very generous with it 🙂

• Serve and enjoy your Browned Butter Broccoli with Mizithra Cheese Recipe!

How to make Browned Butter Broccoli with Mizithra Cheese Recipe

More Side Recipes

• Brown Sugar Banana Squash

• German Apple and Celery Root Salad

• Southwest Roasted Cauliflower

• Green Beans with Meyer Lemon Vinaigrette and Parmesan Crumbs

• Roasted Butternut Squash, Feta, and Pine Nut Salad

• Browned Butter, Parmesan, and Almond Green Beans

Browned Butter Broccoli with Mizithra Cheese will make even non-broccoli-eaters like broccoli! YUM.

One more thing before you go…

We love creating recipes and sharing our adventures with you, so if you can do us a huge favor it’d really support us! It’s easier to stay motivated to share our best with you when we hear from you! We adore our readers and it really makes our day to get comments, social tags/shares, or pins that you save for later to share with your family and friends.

Our hearts sing when you do.

We SEE you and we do our very best to respond to all the love! It also amps up our mo-jo so we get lots of awesome things done around here. Please reach out if you have questions or comments via our email: ruthie@cookingwithruthie.com. We’re excited to see you again soon!

Cooking with Ruthie on Instagram

Cooking with Ruthie on Pinterest

Cooking with Ruthie on Facebook

Thanks for sharing in the CWR blog-love!

Love Always,

Ruthie & Madeliene